Do Republicans Eat Their Own?

It does go too far. The election is over, there is no reason to place blame now. I'm a Republican and I think it's pretty sad. Republican or Democrat I only want to know what they have accomplished and what they plan for the future. This campaign was ugly all over, from the candidates themselves down to the voters. Yes I did like Sarah Palin. I know some on here think that's just crazy but the reason I did was because she seemed like someone who would live next door to me instead of a Washington insider. She didn't know everything but neither do I. Sometimes I think it would be better if everyone in Washington were replaced by people who don't know anything...at least then it would put an end to the games that these people play with our lives which is of little consequence to their own. I did hear one political analyst say that these McCain campaign workers were just looking for jobs now...maybe in the Obama Administration...lol.

The reasons for Republicans "eating their own" are indeed, tied to their lack of moral compass, but it's not just moral blindness that makes them lash out at Mrs. Palin. Republicans eat their own often, and Palin was their last gimmick, a token, a ruse. When the party was seething with jealous rage at how much adoration and hope we drew from Mr. Obama, they imported her quickly and shoved her into the limelight.

Scapegoating is the main platform of the party, if you really think about it. Neo-con Conservatives like to get the Joe and Jane six-pack VOTE, but they don't much care for the Rabble They Love To Rouse. So here you have them calling her a hillbilly, and spitting on her now that she has lost. She has become their Piñata with Lipstick . She is also a self proclaimed “Washington outsider”. When people are scrambling for jobs in the politirazzi, she is a safe target. She’s back in the wild. It’s like shooting wolves from an airplane.

Take the story about Palin in a towel, for example, a bizarre twist. If a male Aide leaked that, we will never know. But either way, she was used and degraded, just like the Christian right wing has been used and degraded by Bush/Cheney. This particular issue speaks to the party’s low regard for women as well. If there is a female on hand, blame her. Take the case against "Maj. Gen. Barbara Fast, the highest-ranking intelligence officer tied to the Abu Ghraib prison scandal" as reported on the news. Let's be honest, is she REALLY the highest we can go, can we not blame Rummie, not Bush?

Republican politicians support one thing: tax breaks and welfare for rich people and big corporations. But that 1% of wealth does not get them the vote. So they need to pander to the lowest bracket of income and education. They trotted her dim-witted, well shaped bum out onto the stage, gambling that 51% of the USA would not see past their deception. This kind of stunt didn’t work on the Clinton supporter, but it worked well in the far right wing nut, the KKK and the John Birch society, especially when combined with the standard “fear mongering”, race baiting and insult throwing we’ve come to associate with Karl Rove.

Well, it backfired. Hugely. And so, in the aftermath, when finger pointing commences, she becomes the target of all that anger she helped to stir up. She roundly deserves the smack-down, but she is not the central figure, nor the real problem.

My point is this: unless self delusion itself can be targeted, targeting a self-delusional character is useless. It’s destructive, but the elephant is in self-destruct mode and seems to be - to quote Olbermann: Too stupid to know that it’s stupid.

It's time for the blame game. And Sarah Palin has become the object of much of the blame. The truth is is that she does deserve a lot of the blame that's being hurled her way. But that ultimately falls on John McCain. He's the one that chose her.

I am a republican but i was not as against Palin as so many were, I figured giving the chance she should accomplish presidency. I do feel that a lot of people didn't vote for him for that reason, but i stuck by him. She was not his only downfall, the Bush regime turned people away from the republican party, along with the fact that he was running against someone who kept preaching change(yet to be seen if it is good or bad) and giving people what i can only hope is not false hope.

Yeah I guess the entire Repub party has banded together to do as you are saying. No matter who wins, the losing side will have a group that blames one thing or person and another group blames something else and so on and so on. Use your common sense fool. Your side would have done the same thing, by blaming this or that depending on which group you are in.

Palin energized the republican base,but the GOP failed to realize the republican base is not a true representation of the American voters.If they are foolish enough to come back with her as a party leader then the GOP is as dumb founded as she is.

The republicans tore Obama down to the dirt with racist smears, lies so why not tell the truth about Palin? I mean after all the entire country needs to know how close we came to the insanity of voting in a whackjob. We need to know. We need to know so it doesnt happen again. Palin is all about greed and she isnt the sharpest tool in the toolshed. Can you imagine her running a country? The entire world was laughing at us. The entire world celebrates Obama. Thank God there is a God and getting rid of the republicans proved it.

The Democrats did it during the Primaries.

They just pulled themselves together afterwards.

Couldn't stand Palin anyway. But your right, did you see the debate and how childish and rude they were to Ron Paul? Pathetic.

McCain's staff is doing what Liberals do; blaming others for their failures. Its a disgrace and not indicative of conservative thinking.